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[quote=Anonymous]Benchmark Advance is not above grade level it is an on level program.  There is additional content for differentiation of above grade level students.  The hardest part of Benchmark is that it offers a lot of things that teachers can use.  Which while great to have all the resources, can be overwhelming for many especially given class size and available planning time. I think teachers and teams would need multi day training from Benchmark SMEs to really get a handle on it.  Additionally districts/teaching teams/schools really need to dig to agree on what differentiation items they are going to use for what grades and types of learners.

Really good implementation planning/training/support is required and I haven’t found most school districts (especially large school districts) to be great at the above.  Partly because the trainers tend not to be SME’s on the particular thing.

It does get students doing close reading earlier and the Benchmark Advance is supposed to have better phonics and be aligned to Science of Reading.

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